The first table below looks at the demand for WordPress skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WordPress over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Platforms category for the Dorset region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
WordPress
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing WordPress 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset - - -
As % of the Application Platforms category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £300 £200
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £135.37 £16.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
+720.42% -26.66%
All Application Platforms
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Platforms category
44 62 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 20.28% 22.22% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 32 45
Average daily rate £365 £375 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.66% +102.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £685 £400 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £345
% change year-on-year
- -5.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £17.50 £21.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -48.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £20.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00% -2.43%
WordPress
South West

WordPress
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WordPress across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Platforms category.

Dorset WordPress Jobs Demand Trend

WordPress
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WordPress across the Dorset region.

Dorset WordPress Daily Rate Trend

WordPress
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing WordPress also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WordPress.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal

WordPress
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing WordPress also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WordPress. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Joomla!
1 1 (100.00%) Drupal
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) W3C
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP